The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-08-19
GREATNESS IN YOUTH.

Charles James Fox was in parliament ut
49,
The Great Cromwell left the University Of
Cambridge at 49,
John Bright was never at any school day
after he was l5years old.
Gladstone was in parliament at %, and at
"a was lord of the treasury.
Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge when
16, and was called to the bar at 81.
Peel was in parliament at 81, and Palmer.
ston was lord of the admiralty at 2s.
John Hampton, after graduating at Ok
ford. was student at law in the Inner Tenn
pile at 10.
Gustavus Adolphus assembled the throne at
16; before he was "a be was one OF the great
rulers of Europe.
Judge Story was at Harvard at IS, in con-
gress ut %, and judge of the supreme court
OF the United States at 32
Conde conducted a memorable campaign at
II, and at % he, and Turenne also, were Of
the most illustrious men Of their time.
Only one civilian out Of the presidents Of
this country gained his first election after he
was GO, and that one was James Buchanan.
Webster was in college ut Is, gave earnest
Ol ulS bIeHG luCuTe DeIOFo no was %, anu uC ~
was the peer Of the ablest man in congress.
William II. Seward commenced the prac-
tico Of law at 81, at 81 was president OF
state convention, and at 81 governor Of New
York.
Washington was distinguished colonel In
the army at %, early in public affairs, COM
mander Of the forces at 43 and president
at 81.
Maurice, Of Saxony, died Mt 80, conceded
to have been one Of the profoundest statesmen
and one of the ablest generals which Christ
endom had seen.
Napoleon at 25 commanded the army Of
Italy. At 80 he was not only one Of the most
illustrious generals of all,time. but one of the
great law givers of the world. At 46 he saw
Waterloo.
The great Leo x was pope ut SO; having
finished his academic training he took the
office Of cardinal at 18-only 12 months
younger than was Charles James Fox when
he entered parliament.
William Pitt entered the university at IA,
was chancellor OF the exchequer at %, prime
minister at "a and so continued for twenty
years. and when IS was the most powerful
uncrowned head i'll Europe.
From the earliest years of Queen Elizabeth
to the latest Of Queen Victoria, England has
had scarce an able statesman who did not
leave the university by the time he was 20,
and many of them left at an earlier age.
The late Lord Beaconsfield left the cloister
and entered the great world early-as did
John Bright-and commenced his political
career by writing a book at II, in which he
predicted that he would be prime minister.
Hamilton was in Kings college at 16; when
II, he made q notable address on public
| affairs to the citizens of New York; at 20 he
was intrusted with most important mission
to Gen. Gates, was i'll congress at Is and
secretary of the treasury at 80.
John Quincy Adams, at the age of Il, was
| secretary to Mr.. Dana then minister ut the
Russian court; at 80 he was himself minister
to Prussia; at 35 he was minister to Russia;
at 49 he was minister to England; at Sc he
was secretary Of state, and president at 81.
Jonathan Edwards acquired easly renown
as the greatest metaphysician in America and
as unsurpassed by any one in Europe He
commenced the reading of Latin when years
old. AT 10 he wrote remarkable paper
upon Immortality. At the age of 10 he
entered Yale college, where be graduated
four years later.
Gen. Grant was elected president at 49,
But when very young man, in the Mexican
war, he SO distinguished himself at the battle
of Molino del Rey that Gen. Scott named
him for promotion on the field, and at the
storming of Chapultepec his courage and
ability caused him to be specially commended
by Gen. Worth, and for these young acts OF
skill and valor he was made captain in the
regular army. He was but 80 when he
gained his victory at Fort Donelson, and
only Al when he took Vicksburg.